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DeWitt-Morette, C??cile |
The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity |
I06227 |
2011 |
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Dewitt-Morette, C??cile |
Functional Integration |
I05222 |
1997 |
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Dewitt-Morette, C??cile |
Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective |
I01572 |
1999 |
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| Title | The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity : Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004 |
| Author(s) | DeWitt-Morette, C??cile |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. |
| Description | XII, 151 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 1946 is the year Bryce DeWitt entered Harvard graduate school. Quantum Gravity was his goal and remained his goal throughout his lifetime until the very end. The pursuit of Quantum Gravity requires a profound understanding of Quantum Physics and Gravitation Physics. As G. A. Vilkovisky commented , "Quantum Gravity is a combination of two words, and one should know both. Bryce understood this as nobody else, and this wisdom is completely unknown to many authors of the flux of papers that we see nowadays." Distingished physicist Cecile DeWitt-Morette skillfully blends her personal and scientific account with a wealth of her late husband's often unpublished writings on the subject matter. This volume, through the perspective of the leading researcher on quantum gravity of his generation, will provide an invaluable source of reference for anyone working in the field. "I found the book both instructive and fascinating. Bryce DeWitt and C??cile DeWitt-Morette formed the most creative couple in physics that I have ever read about, heard about or, in this case, been privileged to know. Bryce started work on the problem of quantum gravity in the late 1940s, long before it became fashionable, and continued to make trail-blazing contributions until his death. C??cile, superbly trained and gifted in mathematics as well as physics, made many contributions to other fields of physics and also collaborated with Bryce from time to time. Now she has memorialized him in a way that only she could, framing the documented story of his lifelong quest with an account from her unique vantage point. Fortunately, this includes a discussion of functional integration, a field in which her work is of fundamental significance." John Stachel, Director, Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University These wonderful memoirs were produced by DeWitt???s partner-in-life-and-science, C??cile Morette (??pouse DeWitt).?? They contain extracts of DeWitt???s own writings, many of them gems, embedded in an expository matrix crafted by Morette that makes the gems shine more brightly.?????? We see Morette making the foundations of DeWitt???s physics (functional integrals) mathematically reliable, we catch brief glimpses of their life together, but mostly we see DeWitt???s seminal ideas and discoveries about the laws of nature, placed in a historical and philosophical context.?? Besides compelling pieces aimed at specialists, these memoirs also contain treasures that will delight and inform the more general reader:?? Why Physics? (a letter from DeWitt to?? his grandson about the nature of physics and mathematics, and physicists and mathematicians);?? documents in which DeWitt transforms a wealthy entrepreneur???s passion for anti-gravity aircraft into a passion for fundamental physics;?? the history of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wave function of the universe, the history of the Many Worlds (parallel-universes) interpretation of quantum mechanics, and a carefully crafted letter explaining DeWitt???s view of researchers whom the establishment labels ???crackpots???.?? When I picked up this book, I couldn???t put it down; I read it cover to cover with enjoyment and delight. Kip Thorne , The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology ?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642142703 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Functional Integration : Basics and Applications |
| Author(s) | Dewitt-Morette, C??cile;Folacci, Antoine |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1997. |
| Description | X, 431 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The program of the Institute covered several aspects of functional integration -from a robust mathematical foundation to many applications, heuristic and rigorous, in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. It included analytic and numerical computational techniques. One of the goals was to encourage cross-fertilization between these various aspects and disciplines. The first week was focused on quantum and classical systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom; the second week on field theories. During the first week the basic course, given by P. Cartier, was a presentation of a recent rigorous approach to functional integration which does not resort to discretization, nor to analytic continuation. It provides a definition of functional integrals simpler and more powerful than the original ones. Could this approach accommodate the works presented by the other lecturers? Although much remains to be done before answering "Yes," there seems to be no major obstacle along the road. The other courses taught during the first week presented: a) a solid introduction to functional numerical techniques (A. Sokal) and their applications to functional integrals encountered in chemistry (N. Makri). b) integrals based on Poisson processes and their applications to wave propagation (S. K. Foong), in particular a wave-restorer or wave-designer algorithm yielding the initial wave profile when one can only observe its distortion through a dissipative medium. c) the formulation of a quantum equivalence principle (H. Kleinert) which. given the flat space theory, yields a well-defined quantum theory in spaces with curvature and torsion |
| ISBN,Price | 9781489903198 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
4. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
5. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective |
| Author(s) | Dewitt-Morette, C??cile;Zuber, Jean-Bernard |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1999. |
| Description | XX, 403 p. 24 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It has been said that `String theorists talk to string theorists and everyone else wonders what they are saying'. This book will be a great help to those researchers who are challenged by modern quantum field theory. Quantum field theory experienced a renaissance in the late 1960s. Here, participants in the Les Houches sessions of 1970/75, now key players in quantum field theory and its many impacts, assess developments in their field of interest and provide guidance to young researchers challenged by these developments, but overwhelmed by their complexities. The book is not a textbook on string theory, rather it is a complement to Polchinski's book on string theory. It is a survey of current problems which have their origin in quantum field theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401145428 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
2. Applications of Mathematics
3. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
4. CONDENSED MATTER
5. CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Elementary particles (Physics)
9. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
10. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
11. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
12. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
13. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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